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Honda and Nissan announce merger to form world's third largest car company (www.rfi.fr)
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Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan have announced plans to join forces and form the world’s third-largest automaker by sales as the industry undergoes dramatic changes in its transition away from fossil fuels.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nissan's failures: Trash CVT, Toyota prices, failed to expand their e-Power (series) Hybrid, missed the small pick-up truck in the USA, ignored the sub $20k EV and they allowed shitty Tesla to grab the EV market. It means Mitsubishi will end up with Honda and Nissan.

No word from Renault?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bah. Their CVTs have been pretty decent since the 2018 revision. Don't care about EVs, though they have a more proven platform in the Leaf than Honda has. The Frontier is one of the best selling (and best) small/mid-size trucks in the US. I think it's the only one still actually made on a truck frame.

So glad they're seemingly done with Renault. Nissan engineering quality was top notch before that infernal partnership.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The Frontier's Q3 sales of ~16k were outpaced by the Ranger (21k) Colorado (29k), Maverick (45k), and Tacoma (57k). It did outsell the Ridgeline (13k) and Canyon (10k).

I know there are ebs and flows as models change over, but I don't think either Nissan truck has ever been close to the front of the pack.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought the $20k EV segment was just impossible because just the battery alone costs $15k

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The new Hyundai Inster starts at 22 290 euros in Slovakia( and cars here are more expensive than the US), it is very much possible for car companies that have actual scale and don't waste resources on developing cybertrucks